Re: [PATCH 4] mce: acpi/apei: Add a sysctl to control page offliningon firmware report

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 06:24:00PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> I am adding another patch here to disable page offlining in case the firmware
> starts acting up.
> 
> Thanks,
> Naveen
> 
> --
> 
> Add a sysctl memory_failure_soft_offline to control what is done on receipt of
> firmware ghes notification for a corrected error. By default, kernel tries
> to soft-offline the page immediately. If set to 0, no action is taken.

What is the rationale for that? Are we adding it just in case, as a
chicken bit or do you have a specific case?

If the second, we'd love to hear about it in the commit message. :)

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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